Rubber Worms
...Truth comes in one golden droplet
you can wait for days -weeks
or a lifetime for it to appear
in a dustbowl of faithlessness and doubt...
You wait like a blind baby bluebird
but mom only bring...
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Categories:
thorned, truth, universe,
Form: Free verse
Flower Chide II,the bloomquake
...They will not honor your fragrant breath
They’ll use it as ode, or veil, or death.
Not love, but lack—will wear your name,
Your petals will ache beneath borrowed fame.”
Lotus's voice now split Ne...
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Categories:
thorned, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
A Garden of Memory
...The morning comes with brittle chill,
Where once her garden used to spill.
My mother’s hands lie still and cold—
The earth keeps secrets never told.
She woke before the dawn’s first light,
To ...
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Categories:
thorned, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Soft But Thorned
...I am the rose the night can’t drown,?
A bloom that leans when skies turn down.?
A myriad stars above me glow,?
While serpentine winds around me blow.
The lunar hush, it knows my name,?
A gir...
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Categories:
thorned, destiny, hope, magic, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Lone Cowboy and the Cactus Land
...He rides beneath a sky of burning light,
A shadow stretching wide across the plain.
His boots are weathered, his hands are stiff with dust,
Yet in his eyes, the calm of open land.
The cactus stan...
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Categories:
thorned, creation, encouraging, life, strength,
Form: Sestina
Masques of Tyranny
...Tyranny wears no single face—
it dances in silk and iron,
in laughter rippling through marble halls,
in jeweled cups brimming with poison.
Here stand five shadows cloaked in power:
the Jade Em...
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Categories:
thorned, dark, evil, fate,
Form: Ode
IRON MAIDEN
...Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri
IRON MAIDEN
Iron maiden was she
fathered from loins of
Zeus flow free ~
surrounded by swords
steely three, icicle aura
bounded hounded
innocence thor...
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Categories:
thorned, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Alliteration
wild, ingraitiating rancid supples teet
...It takes this version of you awhile for
Me to consider, as an illusion your so
Consistent i can lean on the
Imaginary love i create to spend time
Being out of love, walking a path i
Can’t share...
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Categories:
thorned, betrayal, city, integrity,
Form: Free verse
SHROUDED LIGHT
...Callously torn in fragile shreds,
I sheepishly snuggle in cozy threads.
Succinctly laced, the cactus leans -
Hope nestled amidst it's thorned scenes.
To bittersweet melodies, in trance,
A ...
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Categories:
thorned, dark, light,
Form: Rhyme
Burn
...The stretch of death and decay blows in from the north,
As centuries turn to dust.
Darkness engulfs barren carcasses of what was,
forlorn rain drips from the weeping sky,
coating every strand of ...
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Categories:
thorned, death, horror, image, imagery,
Form: Free verse
When rebellion arises justice takes birth
...The old mother-in-law was sent away,
To an old age home without delay.
The daughter-in-law, with silent defiance,
Pushed back without uttering a grievance.
The husband, in his quest to tame,
A...
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Categories:
thorned, analogy, life,
Form: Free verse
Its a liar made so we spin
...I am the Ouroborus of trauma
Thorned scales of each red flag
So add them up and feed me my flaws
Among clutter in a hand me down bag
Let's laugh as I divulge my wounds
I look a man but the bo...
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Categories:
thorned, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme
My loveable gobbler
...One fine morning, I went to the farm, I was not welcomed by him,
And I searched him all over the farm, ...
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Categories:
thorned, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Narrative
O'er The Other Side of The Fence
...
I seek escape from this side of the fence where
Grassy thorns beneath my feet pierce my sole.
Scrambling, ambling, trekking to the freedom
Awaiting on the other side.
I search for pockets in my...
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Categories:
thorned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Reward Of 72 Verge Ends
...
All... picks out a variety.
Like roses, plucked.
He chooses a fat one.
He chooses an unwilling one, a willing one.
How did she get to...?
As long as we are enslaving object...
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Categories:
thorned, art,
Form: Other
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